Talk:Tyne and Wear Metro/GA1

GA Reassessment

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GA Sweeps: Delisted

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I believe the article currently has multiple issues that need to be addressed, and as a result, I have delisted the article. The main issues are below.

1. The lead needs to be expanded to better summarize the article. See WP:LEAD for guidelines. Try and touch on each topic in the article.
2. There are multiple lists in this article which should be converted to prose.
3. Address the "citation needed" tag, it has been there since July 2007! Some of the "News and issues" as well as the "Notable features" also need to be cited. "Corporate identity and livery" is completed unsourced as well as the majority of "The Future".
4. Throughout the article some terms are bolded. Only the article's title needs to bolded. If you'd like to place emphasis on the words use quotation marks.
5. A few explanation sentences should be provided before the table in the "Opening dates" section. Also, dates shouldn't be wikilinked.
6. "Current plans" section should be expanded. Subsections shouldn't include just a single sentence. Either expand on the details or incorporate the details into another section.
7. The gallery needs to be removed per WP:IG. A link is already provided to the Wikimedia Commons category of images related to the article.
8. Many of the citations only have a title and an access date. The sources should include the author, date, publisher, etc. Consider using the citation templates at WP:CITET to simplify the formatting.
9. The article has multiple [hhttp://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py?page=Tyne_and_Wear_Metro#view=0,1,1,1,1,1 dead links]. The Internet Archive can assist in fixing them.

Although the article has been delisted, the article can be return to GA status by addressing the above points. Once sources are added and cleanup is done, I recommend renominating the article at WP:GAN. If you disagree with this assessment, a community consensus can be reached at WP:GAR. If you need clarification or assistance with any of these issues, please contact me on my talk page and I'll do my best to help you out. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 19:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

I added the {{cleanup-gallery}} tag to the gallery. There is nothing in inherently wrong with a gallery, but this one is poorly done. It's just a random collection of images - exactly the sort of gallery discouraged by WP:IG - it either needs to be significantly improved or moved over to the Commons. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 16:18, 10 July 2009 (UTC)